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273Evolutionary debunking arguments in three domains: Fact, value, and religionIn James Maclaurin Greg Dawes (ed.), A New Science of Religion, Routledge. 2013.Ever since Darwin people have worried about the sceptical implications of evolution. If our minds are products of evolution like those of other animals, why suppose that the beliefs they produce are true, rather than merely useful? We consider this problem for beliefs in three different domains: religion, morality, and commonsense and scientific claims about matters of empirical fact. We identify replies to evolutionary scepticism that work in some domains but not in others. One reply is that ev…Read more
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4Countenances as Lightning. The Materiality of the Noli me tangere Fresco in AssisiConvivium 5 (2): 82-97. 2018.
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University of South AfricaDepartment of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic TheologyUndergraduate
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Social Science |